tetleytea

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]My reading of the Ark story is that "the entire land was flooded", that Noah finally landed "on the mountains of Ararat" and that the story was always, always about a people who lived there and were the ancestors of the Hebrews. It was not about the entire world. (Incidentally, Islam, which was not subject to the Latin translation, still believes that the deluge was local.)[/quote] The "local flood" theory of the Ark is physically not possible. Genesi

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote] If God had been forced to change His divine plan because of the conduct of one of His creatures, (by destroying the devil), He would therefore have submitted to the will of a creature, and His action would have been dependent on the action of a creature. That would imply that God would have no longer been God [/quote] Since I am not Lula, I can make a go of it. Have you never submitted yourself to t

Reply to Post your Christmas Tree 2011 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote] ¡Feliz Navidad a todos! no tengo árbol de navidad por falta de dinero, de hecho, desde hace tiempo que no pongo árbol de navidad en diciembre.[/quote] Cuando yo era in el sur de Mexico, ellos tenian arboles de navidad en noviembre. Muy lindas tambien.

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

It's interesting that starting threads that are overtly political are frowned upon on these forums, but religion is okay. I would think religion is even more inflammatory than politics. But nonetheless, I'm okay with it, and it's their forum anyway. That said.... I think we're splitting hairs when we talk about God creating evil & Satan. Lucifer and Satan are the same person. So yes, I would contend that God

Reply to Do you kill Threads? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

How to kill threads: #include #include int pthread_kill(pthread_t thread , int signo );

Reply to Random complaints thread in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote]I want to complain there ain't no round jackets. WTF[/quote] I'm wearing one.

Reply to I’m a NOOB! ME! A NOOB! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I know I got slaughtered sometimes online, on various games. Had nothing to do with my age. I just wasn't very good at it. I had fun for a little while, even if I was losing. Didn't always invest the time to try and get better at it. Of course, there were a few games, I was the guy doing the slaughtering. The sportsmanship of the various people who I beat varied at times. Sometimes I got double/triple-teamed, which is perfectly fair game

Reply to Two lessons about customer care learned from OS/2 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote]This may sound funny, but the better a game is, the louder my criticism.[/quote] Actually, to those of us who have actually delivered software to customers, that doesn't sound funny at all. If you don't get any bug reports filed against you, heard nothing bad about your stuff, etc.--it's probably because people aren't using it. But when you've got a hit, lots of bugs and "bugs" get filed, they're all drop-dead critical priority, divas c

Reply to Random complaints thread in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote]There's no Christmas in Texas?[/quote] Yeah there is, and the leaves are just starting to turn colors. It's beautiful.

Reply to Random complaints thread in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote]Now I want to complain about people getting Kansas and Texas mixed up. [/quote] I think it's because both have sucky football teams.

Reply to I can finally print, it’s a miracle in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Driver writers in the industry are horribly understaffed and underpaid (gee...you think there might be a causal connection between the two?). The problem is, if you're skilled at writing drivers, then you're probably also skilled at writing kernels, and kernel writing will earn you $180k a year. Even a bad kernel guy will be better off doing that than writing drivers.

Reply to I’m a NOOB! ME! A NOOB! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Classic axiom in gaming: if you're getting smoked, lower the difficulty. Then you master that, then you gradually get better and defeat the beasts who pwned you before. I don't always know how you do that in online gaming, but you have to find a way.

Reply to Two lessons about customer care learned from OS/2 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I guess this thread does not bode well for Linux zealots.

Reply to Immortals 2011 Movie sucked or what? in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

Well anyway, thaks for letting me know not to waste my Date Night for the week on Immortals.

Reply to Post your Christmas Tree 2011 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

The whole pagan thing is an old wives' tale. Martin Luther started it when he saw the beauty of the stars shining behind the tall trees, snow-covered. He wrote a poem about it. Not too long thereafter Germans were putting candles in trees as "stars". Needless to say, candles in trees are not exactly safe, so naturally Christmas lights followed thereafter. No doubt this is going to spark a bunch of debate over the origin of Christm

Reply to Post your Christmas Tree 2011 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

ssssshhhhh!!!! We don't have Christmas trees anymore. They're all Holiday trees now. Don't want to offend.

Reply to Immortals 2011 Movie sucked or what? in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

[quote]But...as long as Hollywood thinks a good fantasy-epic film is nothing more than a metro sexual actor with lots of a body oil accompanied by a fetching actress with a plunging neck line and show of leg--followed by a ridiculous "Mana-o-Monstro" CGI fight and no plot at all...well, not much hope there.[/quote] Sounds a lot like the movie Eragon. Wannabe film, totally unoriginal plot (boy tames dragon and kills wizards with him? Wow! No one ever thought of that b

Reply to Expansion for War of Magic in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]And you did this Diety feat playing against 14-15 other AI PLAYERS? or did you just cheat and play against 1 or 2 computer opponents?? lol Gaming the game is no victory. Play the game at MAXIMUM DIFFICULTY with ALL the AI PLAYERS and tell me you beat it. lmao[/quote] Dude, you sound like one of the poorer sports who got beat online. Rules are rules. If it's legal and someone uses it to win--including if that player is not yourself--it's called a fair g

Reply to Post your Christmas Tree 2011 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

The Geek's Christmas Tree

Reply to Expansion for War of Magic in War of Magic Elemental Forums

If Civ III and IV had good tactical battles like in Rise of Nations or Total War, ohmigosh that would be like crystal meth. I would live for the face-offs between two mega-stacks-of-doom. Only problem would be that that is hard to implement, having to deal with all the technology levels and unique units. Plus the really early tactical combat such as scouts vs. animals would be just silly. Civ is already insanely long as it is: I know a girl who broke up wit

Reply to Random complaints thread in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

I don't think it's so much a matter of people before profits as it is, profits before honesty. If the banks and government would just be honest, both the people and the profits would take care of themselves.

Reply to Expansion for War of Magic in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Oh, I know how strategic MP, tactical SP could work: co-op only. If you had 4 players online taking on AI, fog of war (including not seeing each other's every move), now that would be interesting. And that would be enough to say you have MP. Next step up would be to allow for all humans to take their turns in parallel--also interesting, but the developer would have a lot of multi-threaded race conditions to work through. And vice-versa:&nbsp

Reply to Expansion for War of Magic in War of Magic Elemental Forums

MHO, but MP for TBS just makes zero sense to me. It's hard to match up opponents when both parties have to commit to more than an hour of time. Just committing 1 1/2 hours to a single game like you do in Sins seems to severely erode interest in MP. Sins MP...boy...now there's a hot cauldron of online activity. MP in Starcraft 2 makes sense because it'll

Reply to Expansion for War of Magic in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I've got hundreds of dollars in games in the garage wasting away in 100-degree heat that maybe I played once. Sometimes you buy a game and it's a dud. I spent $130 on a video card just so I could play Supreme Commander and ended up not even liking the game. Did I complain? No...I laughed about it. That's life--get used to it. The lesson to learn is to browse forums like these, Gamespy, IGN, and Gamespot before buying.&nbsp

Reply to Do you like basketball games? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Just comments in general about basketball video games: my how our generation is wussing out. Rather than go on the PS3 and pretend to play basketball, GO OUTSIDE, pick up a ball, dribble it, shoot it, and PLAY SOME BASKETBALL.